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<p>This analysis of Swiss Federal Supreme Court judgements shows the coupling of welfare and migration control. Foreign nationals depending on social assistance might face the withdrawal of their residence permits. We show how the conveyed legal logics create conditionality of rights and a differentiation of (non-)citizens. The judgements individualise social assistance dependence and follow a neoliberal logic of economic participation. They establish rationalities which reinforce politics of belonging and welfare chauvinism.</p>
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This analysis of Swiss Federal Supreme Court judgements shows the coupling of welfare and migration control. Foreign nationals depending on social assistance might face the withdrawal of their residence permits. We show how the conveyed legal logics create conditionality of rights and a differentiation of (non-)citizens. The judgements individualise social assistance dependence and follow a neoliberal logic of economic participation. They establish rationalities which reinforce politics of belonging and welfare chauvinism.

(Un)Conditional Welfare? Tensions Between Welfare Rights and Migration Control in Swiss Case Law

Swiss Journal of Sociology

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This analysis of Swiss Federal Supreme Court judgements shows the coupling of welfare and migration control. Foreign nationals depending on social assistance...

(Un)Conditional Welfare? Tensions Between Welfare Rights and Migration Control in Swiss Case Law

Published Online: Mar 28, 2021

Page range: 93 - 114

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjs-2021-0008

Keywords
Social assistance, migration control, welfare chauvinism, exclusion, case law

© 2021 Lisa Marie Borrelli et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

(Un)Conditional Welfare? Tensions Between Welfare Rights and Migration Control in Swiss Case Law

Published Online: Mar 28, 2021

Page range: 93 - 114

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjs-2021-0008

KeywordsSocial assistance, migration control, welfare chauvinism, exclusion, case law

© 2021 Lisa Marie Borrelli et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Social assistance, migration control, welfare chauvinism, exclusion, case law